Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark, discusses her Hierarchy of Engagement framework for growing a consumer startup and her Hierarchy of Marketplaces framework for building a marketplace startup. She highlights the importance of measuring cohorts, focusing on core actions, and dominating the market. Tavel provides examples of core user actions from Pinterest and YouTube, and emphasizes the value of starting in underestimated markets. Plus, a lightning round of questions and answers.

Christian Idiodi, partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, discusses the negative perception of product managers and how to fix it. He explains the four attributes of a product manager's job and the power of finding reference customers. Christian also shares his process for high-volume hiring and offers tactical tips for coaching, building relationships, and building trust as a leader.

Jason Fried, Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, prioritizes profit and explores bootstrapping. They discuss challenges with raising venture capital, the 'Shape Up' framework for building products, fostering a gut-driven culture, and advice for starting a bootstrapped business.

Matthew Dicks, best-selling author and expert in storytelling, shares techniques for effective storytelling, including starting every story at the end, building a vault of stories for business situations, and being funnier. He also discusses the power of saying yes, dealing with nervousness in public speaking, and the benefits of a positive mindset.

This podcast compilation features stories of failure from various episodes, including freezing onstage, product disasters, and failing conclusively. Guests share experiences from Airbnb, Google, and Quibi, emphasizing the importance of learning from failure, understanding user problems, and embracing the challenging parts of life and career.

Author Kim Scott explores the concept of Radical Candor, sharing tactical advice on feedback, the false dichotomy of good leader vs. kind person, and the importance of career conversations. She also offers a sneak peek into her upcoming book Radical Respect. The podcast covers topics like effective feedback techniques, caring leadership, and starting a diamond cutting factory in Moscow.

Anuj Rathi, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Jupiter Money, discusses how product management is different in India, the importance of understanding the new user experience, being a full stack product manager, implementing a system for business analysis and alignment, working backwards and taking big bets, challenges of building successful marketplaces, and favorite books and TV show recommendations.

Ebi Atawodi, Director of Product Management for YouTube, discusses crafting a compelling product vision, the four key elements of a vision statement, the pillars of great product management, culture's influence on product, structuring strategy sessions, and improving work relationships. They also talk about YouTube's vision and upcoming features.

In today's podcast, Lenny interviews Inbal Shani, CPO of GitHub, discussing the future of AI in software development. They cover topics such as overhyped and underhyped aspects of AI, AI-driven code generation, whether AI will replace developers, software development in the next few years, and how product teams operate at GitHub.

A compilation of product leaders' favorite interview questions including hypothetical scenarios for a teleportation device, assessing candidate's values and motivation, and asking about diversity and inclusion initiatives.